Poole and Bournemouth Stamp & Postcard Club (Founded 1967)
Affiliated to the Association of British Philatelic Societies
and
The Hampshire Philatelic Federation
Meetings are held at 7:30pm on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Upton Community Centre,
Poole Road, Upton, Poole BH16 5JA (see map at bottom of page)
Car park at Upton Community Centre
and St Dunstan's Church, Upton, Poole
To see reports of meetings from 1 November 2012 to 15 June 2023, please click here
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Club Committee
Chairman | David Wilkins |
Vice-Chairman | Mike Houchen |
Secretary | Michael Goodman |
Treasurer | Wendy Buckle |
Programme Secretary | Brian Snape |
Publicity | Rick Wilmot |
Fair Organiser | David Morris |
Other Committee Members | Tony Arnold (Auctioneer); Ken Parrott |
Webmaster | Chris Wheeler |
Honorary Examiner | Simon Adams |
Club Programme for 2023
January | 5th | Members' displays | "1923" |
January | 19th | "Guest" - Brian Snape | Janos Kass |
February | 2nd | Members' displays | Overprints, watermarks and postmarks |
February | 16th | Members' displays | Kings and Queens |
March | 2nd | Competition Evening | Green Cup, Harry Parsons Shield, Thematic Cup, Barry Proctor Cup, John Hilton Trophy and Novice Trophy |
March | 16th | Spring Auction | Formal auction |
April | 6th | Competition evening two and awards | Bill Way Shield |
April | 8th | Ferndown Fair and Inter-Club Competitions | At Hamworthy Club |
April | 20th | "Guest" Barry Hobbs | Mind your Ps and Qs - Pills, Potions and Quackery of North America |
May | 18th | AGM | Single sheet from all |
June | 1st | Guest Chris Wheeler | People of Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire on Stamps |
June | 3rd | Ringpex 2023 | At Greyfriars Community Centre |
June | 15th | Guests Nick & Janet Nelson | An Evening in Brazil |
July | 6th | Summer Auction | Formal auction |
July | 20th | "Guest" Ted Kemp | Turkey |
August | 3rd | Members' displays | Holidays |
August | 17th | "Guest" Mike Goodman | United States of America 1851 - 2011 |
September September |
7th 9th |
Members' displays Club Fair (Saturday 10-4) |
Agriculture and Horticulture |
September | 21st | Autumn Auction | Informal auction |
September | 23rd | Hampex 2023 | At Wickham Community Centre |
October | 5th | Members' displays | Postal services |
October | 19th | Guest Julian Jones | Transatlantic Mail between USA and GB |
November | 2nd | Members' displays | Crests, flags and banners |
November | 16th | Winter Auction | Formal auction |
December | 7th | Members' displays | Christmas |
December | 21st | Christmas Social | Members' displays of anything non-philatelic |
Club Programme for 2024
January | 4th | Meeting CANCELLED | Hall Not Available |
18th | "Guest" Barry Hobbs | Private Mail Carriers of South America | |
February | 1st | Members' displays | Valentines |
22nd | Spring Auction | ||
March | 7th | First competition evening | Green, Novice,Barry Proctor and John Hilton Cups |
21st | "Guest" Bill Pipe | WW1 Naval Censorship | |
April | 4th | Second competition evening and awards | Bill Way Shield |
13th | Ferndown Fair and Inter-Club Competitions CANCELLED | At the Hamworthy Club | |
18th | Guest John Moody | Zeppelin, the man, the machines and the stamps | |
May | 2nd | "Guest" Rick Wilmot | Germany: the Occupation Zones and the DDR |
16th | AGM | Club members' auction | |
June | 1st | RINGPEX 2024 (Saturday) | Greyfriars Community Centre |
6th | Guest Chris Wheeler | Post Office labels and stamps | |
20th | Summer Auction | ||
July | 4th | Members' displays | Semi-postals, charity and health stamps |
18th | "Guest" Ted Kemp | Birds | |
August | 1st | Members' displays | Airmail |
15th | "Guest" Bill Pipe | Railway letter stamps on cover | |
September | 5th | Members' displays | Stamp fairs and exhibitions |
7th | Club Fair (Saturday 10-4) | At Upton Community Centre, BH16 5JA | |
19th | Autumn Auction | ||
21st | HAMPEX 2024 (Saturday) | Wickham Community Centre | |
October | 3rd | Members' displays | Sheets, blocks, triptychs, se-tenants and tête-bêche |
17th | "Guests" Wendy Buckle/Brian Snape | John Dickinson and his silk thread paper/The Hungarian holocaust | |
November | 7th | Members' displays | Members' choice |
21st | Winter Auction | ||
December | 5th | Members' displays | 'Most beautiful stamp ever' - display and vote |
19th | Christmas social | Members displays of anything non-philatelic |
For advance information and to make a provisional booking for the 2024 Club Fair, please
contact the Fair Organiser, J Morris -
by email davidlytch@gmail.com or 01202 631868 (evenings and weekends)
Meeting Reports |
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Thursday 16th November 2023 Poole Club had the Winter auction on 16th November. 25 buyers, sellers and watchers turned up. Nice to see some members from the Ferndown Club. The format, this time, was better items listed and sent to the secretary to be distributed. Members could also bring items on the night. This will be the system until further notice. Out of the 216 lots, 133 were sold. The next auction will be February 2024.
(Rick Wilmot) ************************************************************************** Thursday 2nd November 2023 Ken began with a display of topical material from around the world esp. Malta. Mike H. had brought some actual flags which was a great idea for the evening’s topic. He also showed stamps from Europe, Scandinavia, USA and UN. Mike M. Stamps of Australia, Canada, S. Africa, European Union and included Scouts and Guides with their flags and banners. Brian showed material from Hungary. He spoke about the cover of a Hungarian Rhapsody magazine from the RPS. The flag of the 1956 uprising, wartime posters and Communist flag waving on stamps were all in the display. Tony had covered three boards with material including UN flags, crests of universities and colleges, other topical material from around the world. Alan showed a page of Western Australia black swan stamps, being an emblem of that part of the country. This was followed by the Canada Maple Leaf set of 1981. Also, stamps of the Arms of French towns, German occupation zones and the French Arms of Paris. Tony was back with another showing with more interesting material including postcards of maps of SE England with town crests. Finally, Mike G. showed Canada maple Leaves on stamps and lots of USA flag definitives winding up with the US flag on the moon in 1969. All very fine displays!
(Rick Wilmot) Thursday 19th October 2023 The guest speaker tonight was Mr. Julian Jones. His expertise on transatlantic mail was evident from the first page. The display began with Ship Mail between Europe and the USA, late 1800s / early 1900s, most of which went via Queenstown in Ireland. Cunard and White Star Line ships carried the mail and included mail written and postmarked on the ships. Julian explained the ‘Paquebot’ system and how it originated including the UPU rules of 1893. Uncancelled mail was handled in the TPO with the PAQUEBOT mark.
(Rick Wilmot) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Thursday 5th October 2023 The topic tonight was Postal Services. This covers almost everything in the philatelic world and the display boards were full for both periods of the meeting.
(Rick Wilmot) *************************************************** The 21st September was the only auction this year without a list. Members brought an array of material amounting to 270 lots, 50% of which sold. Tony Arnold, our auctioneer, certainly had his work cut out and handled it all very well. The next auction, with listed lots, will be held on 16th November ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Saturday 9th September 2023 “A big thank you to everyone who came along to the Fair to support the Club & help with the many jobs that such an event demands. We were pleased at the steady flow of visitors all morning, despite the heat & all the dealers we were expecting supported us, bar only one, who had a problem. Given the covid-driven break in the Fair's usual annual routine & the disruption to clubs’ activities throughout the country, this was a good outcome with dealers generally reporting satisfactory sales. Wendy & Cheryl were stalwarts in the kitchen and tea & cake sales & the raffle will help the overall financial position for your Club; thank you to all those who donated raffle prizes. As young Mr Grace would have said: "Well done, everybody; you've all done very well!" Paula and Philip Cant of Paula Cant Stamps won first prize in the "dealer raffle": each dealer was allocated one raffle prize (at no cost to the dealer) for a special dealer-only raffle.
![]() (Fair Organiser, David Morris with Raffle First Prize Dealers Paula and Philip Cant) (Rick Wilmot) """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Thursday 7th September 2023 Ken P. began with a display of mainly flowers from G.B., Malta and Tuvalu showing orchids and commemorative stamps of Kew Gardens.
############################################################################### Thursday 17th August 2023 Mike Goodman, our new Hon Secretary, entertained us with a far ranging display from his United States collection. He began almost at the beginning with studies of the 1851 One Cent and Three Cent imperforates, but he also showed some reproductions of the 1845 New York locals whichsaw some usage on overseas mail and also of the 1847 Franklin and Washington issue. When he showed the 1898 Omaha Exhibition set, he pointed out the resemblance between the “Western Cattle in a storm” on the $1 black to “Caledonia Stern and Wild” a painting in the Russell-Coates Museum in Bournemouth. The first half was completed by some modern USA flag issues and some computer mail labels. The second half was mainly “back of the book” with official stamps, early revenues notably the $200 red and green of 1864 , postal stationery, and “facsimile”, fake, and some genuine, Newspaper stamps, featuring the “lovely ladies”, allegorical female statues. An interesting evening which could encourage others to collect USA.
(Mike Goodman) *********************************************************************************************** Thursday 3rd August 2023 The meeting opened with Mike Houchen in the Chair. The topic for the evening was ‘Holidays’. Ken P. began with stamps showing Deck Chairs, Donkey Rides, Cruises, Flights etc.
(Rick Wilmot) ******************************************************************* Thursday 20th July 2023 Ted Kemp is 96 years old. He explained that the display was put together 20 years ago and had been shown at philatelic meetings where he had previously lived. 18 members and guests attended the meeting. This display provided a panoramic view of Turkish history and its philatelic developments, from the time that the Ottoman Empire government established its own postal services in 1840 until the early 1960s. It began with examples of the early mail that used seals to indicate the payment of postage, and of the first postage stamps that were issued in 1863. These were followed by the ‘Duloz’ stamps (named after its French engraver), and by the Constantinople City Post surcharge stamps (1865 – 1867), the similar overprint surcharges (1873 – 1882) and the Kachak (contraband) overprint surcharges (1869 – 1888). All the subsequent stamp issues were displayed, including some bisected stamps that were allowed in Constantinople (1886 – 1888) and Baghdad (1890 – 1892) and the octagonal stamps produced for the use of Turkish forces during the Greco-Turkish war in 1897. The effects of the first World War (when Turkey sided with the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary) were mentioned, and the way in which the Ottoman authorities made up their stamp deficits by overprinting earlier unused stamps was illustrated. At the end of WW1, attempts by the victorious Allied countries to carve up the Turkish mainland as well as its Empire (which provoked a four-year war of independence (1919-1923) and caused a rival Nationalist Turkish government to the Sultanate regime in Constantinople to be created in Angora (modern-day Ankara)) ended when Greek and Armenian forces (armed by Britain and France) were totally defeated. A new peace treaty between the Allies and Turkey was negotiated in Lausanne, and the present Turkish Republic with Mustafa Kemal (later to become Kemal Ataturk) as its first President came into being. Shortages of postage stamps during this turbulent period had become so acute that the rival governments had both resorted to using overprinted revenue stamps as postage stamps. A section of the display was devoted to Kemal Ataturk; one of the 20th Century’s most enlightened leaders who, unusually, excelled both as a military commander and as a politician/statesman. During his 15 years as President until his death in November 1938, he succeeded in converting Turkey from a backward, semi-feudal country into a modern westernised state; an amazing achievement bearing in mind the strength of reactionary elements within the country. A tribute was also made to Ismet Inonu (Ataturk’s successor as President), who kept Turkey neutral during most of WW2 and, in May 1941, turned down Nazi requests to allow German forces free passage through Turkey. Red Crescent and Child Welfare charity stamps (both of which were discontinued in 1958) were also demonstrated, as well as miscellaneous post-WW2 material. All in all, it was an excellent display.
(Rick Wilmot/Ted Kemp) ************************************************************************************************* Thursday 6th July 2023 Smaller auction than usual but with the commission, raffle and items sold for club funds, £88.60 was raised for the club. The next auction on 21st September will be an informal auction. Bring your items for sale along and label them e.g. RW1, RW2 RW3 etc.
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The next meeting will be held on Thursday 7th December 2023 The Club meets at the Upton Community Centre (next to St Dunstan's Church) in the evenings of the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Secretary:- Michael Goodman, email: mgoo831975@aol.com or Mike Houchen:- 01202 622873 (Local, Upton)
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